Pope Francis calls for a shared response to challenge of contemporary migration

Vatican Radio ^ | August 21, 2107 | Vatican Radio

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Pope Francis’ message for the 104th World Day of Migrants and Refugees was released on Monday under the title, “Welcoming, protecting, promoting and integrating migrants and refugees. In the message the Pope calls for a shared response to the challenges of contemporary migration, adding that "in order to achieve the desired outcome, the contribution of political communities and civil societies is indispensable."

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Shared response

In the message for the 104th World Day of Migrants and Refugees the Pope says that “The Lord entrusts to the Church’s motherly love every person forced to leave their homeland in search of a better future. This solidarity, he adds, “must be concretely expressed at every stage of the migratory experience – from departure through journey to arrival and return.”  

Pope Francis goes on to say that this is a great responsibility, which “the Church intends to share with all believers and men and women of good will, who are called to respond to the many challenges of contemporary migration with generosity, promptness, wisdom and foresight, each according to their own abilities.

Pope Francis sums up that shared response in four verbs: to welcome, to protect, to promote and to integrate”.

Welcoming, explains the Holy Father means, “above all, offering broader options for migrants and refugees to enter destination countries safely and legally.  This, he says, calls for a concrete commitment to increase and simplify the process for granting humanitarian visas and for reunifying families.”  The Pope also emphasises the importance of “offering migrants and refugees adequate and dignified initial accommodation.”

Protecting migrants

The second verb, protecting Pope Francis continues “may be understood as a series of steps intended to defend the rights and dignity of migrants and refugees, independent of their legal status. When duly recognised and valued, the Pope says, the potential and skills of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees are a true resource for the communities that welcome them.”

Speaking about the third verb Promoting, the Holy Father notes that “many migrants and refugees have abilities, such as their ability to work. He goes on to encourage a determined effort to promote the social and professional inclusion of migrants and refugees, guaranteeing for all the possibility of employment, language instruction and active citizenship.

With regard to integration, the Pope comments that integration is not “an assimilation that leads migrants to suppress or to forget their own cultural identity. Rather, he adds, “contact with others leads to discovering their ‘secret’, to being open to them in order to welcome their valid aspects and thus contribute to knowing each one better.”

Global  Contribution 

Concluding the message the Holy Father underlines that the Church is ready to commit herself to realising all the initiatives proposed. Yet, he stresses, “in order to achieve the desired outcome, the contribution of political communities and civil societies is indispensable, each according to their own responsibilities.

Pope Francis also invites the faithful to play their part in the process leading to the approval of the two Global Compacts, one for refugees and the other for migrants.

[tennmountainman]

Then the Pope should share the Vatican to thousands of illegals.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Pope Karl.

[JoeFromSidney]

Quit calling them "migrants," as though they were migrating like geese, or were nomads who follow the seasons. They are INVADERS, who have entered in violation of the laws of the country they are entering.

George Orwell once wrote about the importance of calling things by their right names.

[Kalamata]

>>hey are INVADERS, who have entered in violation of the laws of the country they are entering.
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I said these exact words to my husband when I first read what Frankie the Poop said.

[JoeFromSidney]

Quit calling them "migrants," as though they were migrating like geese, or were nomads who follow the seasons. They are INVADERS, who have entered in violation of the laws of the country they are entering.

George Orwell once wrote about the importance of calling things by their right names.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Someone should inform the ImPopester that the reason the Vatican has such high walls is...............muslims.

[Adder]

Absolutely,.,,he took in all of what? 5?

We do not even know if they are still there....

[chris37]

Drop dead, Frank.

[Zathras]

Sounds like the old, “What is yours..is mine, what is mine...is mine”
Either that or he is channeling John McCain in one of his under medicated states.

[GOPJ]

If the Pope would STOP PUSHING SOCIALISM on gullible populations, ‘first world’ counties wouldn’t be forced to reject the millions of losers Socialism produces...